The functional neuroanatomy of visual conjunction search: A parametric fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1578-1590

  Müller, Notger G ^a   Donner, Tobias H ^b,c   Bartelt, Oliver A ^c   Brandt, Stephan A ^c   Villringer, Arno ^c   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0344552790     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00416-6     Document Type: Article

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